'Aluda Ketelauri’ (1888), ‘Host and Guest’ (1893) and ‘The Snake Eater’ (1901) are epic poems of Vazha-Pshavela' (pen name of Luka Razikashvili), Georgian poet who does not have equal in Georgian poetry. In these epic works Pshavela raised the problems of the interrelations of man and family/society/nature and resolved the problems of love and duty to the people; he depicted the conflict between the individual and 'temi' (the peasant commune), where the heroes (people of strong spirit) oppose certain obsolete laws of this commune as a result of the sense of their own worth and thirst for freedom.... Vazha Pshavela idealized the old customs of the Pshavy, their purity, and their freedom from the taint of “false civilization.” Translators: